Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy 14

What do Christians mean when they say the Bible is inerrant? The Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy tells us what leading inerrantist mean by inerrancy. I’ll be posting a section of this statement each week until I’ve posted the whole thing.

You can read previously posted sections of this statement in by clicking here. After a preface and a short statement, the Chicago Statement contains a section called Articles of Affirmation and Denial.

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Article XII.

We affirm that Scripture in its entirety is inerrant, being free from all falsehood, fraud, or deceit.

We deny that Biblical infallibility and inerrancy are limited to spiritual, religious, or redemptive themes, exclusive of assertions in the fields of history and science. We further deny that scientific hypotheses about earth history may properly be used to overturn the teaching of Scripture on creation and the flood.

Sunday's Hymn

Alleluia! Sing to Jesus!

Alleluia! sing to Jesus! His the scepter, His the throne.
Alleluia! His the triumph, His the victory alone.
Hark! the songs of peaceful Zion thunder like a mighty flood.
Jesus out of every nation has redeemed us by His blood.

Alleluia! not as orphans are we left in sorrow now;
Alleluia! He is near us, faith believes, nor questions how;
Though the cloud from sight received Him when the forty days were o’er
Shall our hearts forget His promise, “I am with you evermore”?

Alleluia! bread of angels, Thou on earth our food, our stay;
Alleluia! here the sinful flee to Thee from day to day:
Intercessor, Friend of sinners, Earth’s Redeemer, plead for me,
Where the songs of all the sinless sweep across the crystal sea.

Alleluia! King eternal, Thee the Lord of lords we own;
Alleluia! born of Mary, Earth Thy footstool, Heav’n Thy throne:
Thou within the veil hast entered, robed in flesh our great High Priest;
Thou on earth both priest and victim in the Eucharistic feast.

—William C. Dix

Other hymns, worship songs, sermons etc. posted today:

• The Woman’s Hymn at The Happy Wonderer
• Lord’s Day 19, 2010 at The Thirsty Theologian
• Come Christians Join to Sing at Whatever Is Good
• O Perfect Love at Field Stone Cottage
• When Morning Guilds the Sky at Hiraeth
• A Day of Light and Gladness at Conjubilant with Song
• Your Weekly Dose of Spurgeon at Pyromaniacs: Why do heretics seem more earnest than Christians?

Have you posted a hymn (or sermon, sermon notes, prayer, etc.) today and I missed it? Let me know by leaving a link in the comments or by contacting me using the contact form linked above, and I’ll add your post to the list.

Saturday's Old Photo

I’m still working on replacing photos lost from some of the long ago Saturday’s Old Photo posts. This one was originally posted in May 2007.

These are Carl and Avas Carlson, relatives of my father, who ran a little Brethren in Christ Mission on the southside of Chicago. This photo is from the the early 1960s, and it’s one of those photo cards that missionaries give out. Stamped on the back of the photo in red ink is this:

 

BRETHREN IN CHRIST MISSION
6033 S. Halsted St. - Went. 7122
CHICAGO 1, ILLINOIS
CARL J. CARLSON, Pastor 
SUNDAY SERVICES 9:45, 11, 7, AND 8
WEDNESDAY SERVICE 8:00 P.M
YOU ARE WELCOME !  

 
I remember Avas as a pale, quiet woman. That’s how she was during the three years my family lived in the Chicago area and we attended church at the mission. According to my mother, there were quite a few days that Avas couldn’t get out of bed because she wasn’t feeling well. 

A few years after this photo was taken, Carl died. What did Avas do? We heard she started a new life. She began playing her harp again and giving concerts, perhaps until she was well into her eighties and maybe her nineties. No more days in bed for her.

You might think from those details that Avas was unhappy with Carl, but I don’t think so. I think she may have been unhappy with her restricted life in a gloomy flat above a storefront mission in a very rough area of Chicago.

Avas didn’t die until 2001 when she was 107 years old.